General Secretary Le Duan

SUMMARY OF WORK EXPERIENCE

- 1928: Joined the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association

- 1930: Joined the Indochinese Communist Party

- 1931: Member of the Propaganda Committee of the Northern Regional Party Committee; in the same year, he was arrested in Hai Phong, sentenced to 20 years in prison, and imprisoned in Hoa Lo, Son La, and Con Dao prisons.

- 1936: Released from prison, continued revolutionary activities in Central Vietnam.

- 1937: Secretary of the Central Vietnam Regional Party Committee

- 1939: Appointed to the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the Party, 1st term. At the end of 1939, together with Comrade Nguyen Van Cu, General Secretary of the Party, he chaired the 6th Central Committee Conference, deciding to establish the Indochinese Anti-Imperialist Front, replacing the Democratic Front, shifting the revolutionary struggle to a new phase.

- 1940: Arrested by the French colonial authorities in Saigon, sentenced to 10 years in prison and exiled to Con Dao Island for the second time.

- After August 1945: He was welcomed back to the mainland by the Party and Government and participated in the resistance war in Southern Vietnam.

- 1946: Went to Hanoi, worked alongside President Ho Chi Minh

- 1946-1954: Held the position of Regional Party Committee Member and Secretary of the Central Bureau of the Southern Region.

- 1951: At the Second Party Congress, he was elected to the Central Committee and the Politburo.

- 1954-1957: Remained in the South to lead the revolutionary movement.

- Late 1957: The Central Committee appointed a comrade to lead the Party's general affairs alongside President Ho Chi Minh.

- September 1960: At the Third Party Congress, he was re-elected to the Central Committee and the Politburo, holding the positions of First Secretary of the Central Committee and Secretary of the Central Military Commission.

- December 1976: At the 4th Party Congress, he was again elected to the Central Committee and appointed to the Politburo, holding the position of General Secretary.

- March 1982: At the 5th Party Congress, he was re-elected to the Central Committee and appointed to the Politburo, serving as General Secretary until July 1986.

- July 10, 1986: He passed away.